be-hátan
To promise ⬩ vow ⬩ threaten ⬩ spondere ⬩ pollicere ⬩ vovere ⬩ comminari
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Ǽlc yfel man him behét they threatened him every evil Chr. 1036; Ing. 209, 12; Ælf Tod. 11
Linked entry: be-hǽtst
hrind
barky ⬩ rinded ⬩ caudex ⬩ codex ⬩ liber ⬩ cortex ⬩ frozen to death ⬩ to destroy ⬩ dead
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Thorpe translates barky, Kemble rinded, but in this case there should be no initial h. In Ælfc. Gl. 59; Som. 68, 5, 6; Wrt.
tó-smeágan
To examine in detail ⬩ enquire into the several parts of a subject
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To examine in detail, enquire into the several parts of a subject Betwuh ðám þrím is swiþe micel tósceád. Gif wit ðæt ealle sculon ásmeágan (tósmeágan, Cote. MS.), ðonne cume wit late to ende ðisse béc, oððe nǽfre, Bt. 42; Fox 256, 21
tócir-hús
An inn ⬩ diversorium
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An inn; diversorium (di-vertere = tó-cirran q. v.) Tócirhús diversorium, Wrt. Voc. i. 38, 10
ellen
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Add: conflict, contest In elne in agonia (Lk. 22, 44, in gewinne, W.S. in gecomp, L.R.), Wrt. Voc. ii. 74, 5
ge-dúfan
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Th. i. 212, 2. fig. to plunge into sin, & c. Swá hit him áliéfedlicre ðyncð, swá hé ðǽr diópor on gedýfð quod licitum suspicatur, in hoc multiplicius mergitur, Past. 427, 27.
slǽd
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Narrow strips of boggy ground running into the hard land at Rockland are called " The Slades, " E. Anglian Gloss. Slade a breadth of greensward in ploughed land, or in plantations, E. D. S. Publ. Gloss. B. 7 (West Riding) In Levin's Manip.
Linked entries: sléd wíþig-slǽd wæter-slæd
ealdor
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In écnisse ł in aldre in sempiternum, Mt. L. 21, 19. Add
swenc
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In suoencum in tribulationibus, Rtl. 184, 4
dwellan
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Hí dweldon on wéstene erraverunt in solitudine, Ps. Spl. 106, 4
sceadd
a shad
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Ribble and the Mersey, and in Wirral . . . on the condition that, when shad are in season, each of them give .iii. thousand shad to the convent at Burton, Chart.
Linked entry: sceadd-genge
hwer
A kettle ⬩ pot ⬩ basin ⬩ caldron ⬩ cooking-vessel
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Ðá hét se cásere meltan on hwere leád and pic and hé hét ðone cniht on ðæs hweres welm ásetton the emperor ordered lead and pitch to be melted in a caldron, and ordered the young man to be put into the boiling of the caldron, Shrn. 91, 7.
á-gniden
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A rubbing off Ágnidinne (-ine) detriturigine , Txts. 56, 345. Ágnidene detriturugine. Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 45
eorþ-hús
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Se cásere hét hine gelǽdan intó ánum eorðhúse, and hét áne strange leó lǽtan in tó him, Hml. S. 30, 415. [He hehte hine makian an eorðhus . . . wes Astrild i þissen eorðhuse þat na mon heo þer nuste, Laym. 2360, 2381.] Add
sceamian
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Hé scamode his wiþ men, gif hé ne eóde intó cyrican in swá hálgan dæge þára eástrena si tanto die non iret ad ecclesiam, erubescebat homines, Gr. D. 308, 23
hearm
Causing harm or sorrow, grievous, injurious, evil, malicious
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Ða inwit and fácen hycgeaþ on heortan þurh hearme geþoht qui cogitaverunt malitias in corde, 139, 2. Tugon longne síð in hearmra hond went a long journey into the power of evil ones, Exon. 62 a; Th. 228, 20; Ph. 441.
traht
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Add In þám trahte þæs godspelles þe ic wrát in homiliis evangelii, Gr. D. 281, 9. In þám godspelles trahtum in eisdem homiliis, 283, 2
é-swíc
Disgrace, offence ⬩ scandălum
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Disgrace, offence; scandălum Nis in him éswíc non est in illis scandălum, Ps. Surt. 118, 165. In éswíc in scandălum, 68, 23
be-fóran
in the presence of ⬩ in front of an object ⬩ a-head of ⬩ over against ⬩ before ⬩ in advance of: ⬩ into the presence of ⬩ before ⬩ in advance
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Ðá ðe férdon beforan þǽre fyrde, Chr. 1016; P. 150, 9. with acc. into the presence of Hé beforan þone cyning gelǽd wæs, Bt. 16, 2; F. 52, 22. In feccan beforan hine, Bl. H. 175, 2.
drohtaþ
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In lífe and in háde háliges drohtoðes in vita atque habitu sanctae conversationis, Gr. D. 205, 17. In þá geornesse háliges lífes and drohtoðes, 27. Add